Dr. Jack Min

Professor
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Dr. Jack Min

Professor

Chemical & Biological Sciences

Ward Beecher Hall 3014

phone: (330) 941-1945

xmin@ysu.edu

xmin.people.ysu.edu/

Bio

YSU 2008 - present
Education: Ph.D. 1995 University of Hawaii; MSS (Master of Software Systems) 2002 University of British Columbia; MS 1987 China Agricultural University; BS 1984 Qingdao Agricultural University Postdoctoral Research: University of British Columbia (1996-1998); Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan (1998-2000) Work Experience: Research associate - University of British Columbia (2000-2002); Concordia University (2002-2008)
Current Research & Teaching at YSU (2008 - present) Research projects: (1) Bioinformatics software and database development - software tools for DNA sequence analysis and identification of alternatively spliced genes; knowledge database development for secretomes and alternatively spliced genes; (2) Gene and genome annotation and evolutionary analysis. Teaching: BIOL1505: Biology & the Modern World; BIOL2601: General Biology - Molecules and Cells; BIOL3721: Genetics; BIOL3745: Plant Physiology; BIOL4890L: Molecular Genetics Laboratory; BIOL6964: Advanced Molecluar Genetics; BIOL4800: Bioinformatics; BIOL6900: Advanced Bioinformatics; BIOL5858: Computational Bioinformatics

Research Interests

Bioinformatics, Plant Genomics and Physiology

Teaching Interests

Bioinformatics, Plant Physiology, General Biology, etc

  • Education
    • 2002

      MS, Software Systems

      University of British Columbia

    • 1995

      Ph D, Plant Sciences

      University of Hawaii at Manoa

    • 1987

      MS, Agronomy

      China Agricultural University

    • 1984

      BS, Agronomy

      Qingdao Agricultural Universtity

  • Awards and Honors
    • February 2023

      PLOS

      Long Service Award

      For over 5 years of dedicated service and commitment to the PLOS ONE Editorial Board

    • May 2013

      Youngstown State University

      Distiguished Professorship

  • Intellectual Contributions
    • 2023

      "Systematic collection and analysis of alternative splicing events in potato plants"

      Journal of Plant Sciences, volume 11, issue 3, p. 98-106

    • 2022

      "Comparative analysis of alternative splicing events in foliar transcriptomes of potato plants inoculated with Phytophthora infestans"

      Computational Molecular Biology, volume 13, issue 1, p. 1-8

    • 2022

      "The pistachio genomes provide insights into nut tree domestication and ZW sex chromosome evolution"

      Plant Communications

    • 2022

      "Molecular evolution of genes involved in quinic acid utilization in fungi"

      Computational Molecular Biology, volume 11, issue 5, p. 1-15

    • 2022

      "Identification and Analysis of Alternative Splicing in Soybean Plants"

      , volume 83, p. 1--9

    • 2021

      "Advances in transcriptome analyses using RNA sequencing technology in soybean plants [Glycine max]"

      Computational Molecular Biology, volume 11, issue 1, p. 1-14

    • 2019

      "Expanding alternative splicing identification by integrating multiple sources of transcription data in tomato."

      Frontiers in Plant Sciences, volume 10:689., issue doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.00689.

    • 2018

      "A survey of alternative splicing in allotetraploid cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)"

      , volume 8, issue 1, p. 1-13

    • 2017

      "Comprehensive Cataloging and Analysis of Alternative Splicing in Maize"

      , volume 7, issue 1, p. 1-11

    • 2017

      "Comparative landscape of alternative splicing in fruit plants"

      , volume 9-10, p. 29-36

    • 2016

      "ProtSecKB: The Protist Secretome and Subcellular Proteome Knowledgebase"

      , volume 6, issue 4, p. 1-12

    • 2016

      "Genome-wide identification and analysis of genes encoding proteolytic enzymes in pineapple"

      , volume 9, issue 3, p. 161-175

    • 2016

      "Analysis of alternative splicing landscape in pineapple (Ananas comosus)"

      , volume 9, issue 3, p. 150-160

    • 2015

      "Prediction of plant protein subcellular locations"

      Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BICOB 2015

  • Professional Service
    • 2023 - 2023

      Reviewer, Journal Article
      Scientific journals: PlosOne; Plants, International Journal of Molecular Sciences; 7 articles

    • 2023 - 2024

      Editor, Journal Editor
      MDPI Plants

  • Public Service
    • 2022 - 2022

      Judge
      District 15 Lake-to-River Science Day
      Youngstown, OH

    • 2022 - 2022

      Judge
      YSU QUEST